Chapter 6
“Level 2!”
As Fang Bai smashed the zombie’s temple with the claw hammer in his hand, the experience bar on the attribute panel jumped. Fang Bai once again felt the sensation of leveling up, and his physical condition recovered quite a bit.
Fang Bai immediately opened the attribute panel.
“Level: 2.”
“Strength: 6.”
“Constitution: 5.”
“Agility: 5 (4).”
“Mental Power: 9.”
“Free Attribute Points: 1.”
“I can still deal with the current zombies, so I’ll continue to add points to Mental Power.”
After pondering for a moment, Fang Bai added the free attribute point to his Mental Power attribute.
When the Mental Power on the attribute panel jumped to 10, Fang Bai’s mind felt a burst of coolness. He felt as if his brain’s state had returned to his senior year of high school—no, it should be stronger than that year, much stronger. Whether it was memory, mental agility, or even mental arithmetic ability, it was all the same.
If he had this level of Mental Power back then, Fang Bai felt that as long as he focused on his studies, he would have had the potential to enter a top-tier university.
At the same time, Fang Bai vaguely sensed a kind of restriction, a fullness, a bottleneck.
Fang Bai suddenly realized that, normally speaking, 10 Mental Power might already be the limit. If he were to add more points, he might usher in a breakthrough, might enter a new realm.
“Eleven then?”
Fang Bai muttered softly, simultaneously turning his gaze to the attribute panel, looking at the experience bar. However, the experience bar was empty, so Fang Bai couldn’t judge how many zombies it would take to level up.
But this was very simple, just k*ll one more zombie.
Fang Bai picked up a copper coin from the ground and continued to walk downstairs.
At this time, Fang Bai was on the ninth floor of another building in the complex.
Fang Bai had come directly up through the elevator in the underground parking lot. Relatively speaking, apart from the possibility of a zombie appearing right in front of him when he reached the ninth floor, there were generally no other dangers. It was much safer than walking outside.
As for zombies appearing right in front of him… just like just now, it was clear that they could no longer pose a threat to Fang Bai.
Fang Bai quickly went downstairs. Having killed so many zombies, his Agility attribute value had increased by one point, and his Mental Power attribute value had even increased by two points. Now, killing zombies was simply a smooth and flowing process, even having a faint sense of beauty to it.
Block, sidestep, swing the hammer, headshot!
Zombies had absolutely no ability to fight back against Fang Bai.
Of course, this was on the premise that the number was two or less.
If there were three or four, Fang Bai could only make a tactical retreat first. It wasn’t that he was afraid, but mainly because he planned to let them level up a bit so that they would give more experience points when killed.
After killing a zombie, Fang Bai opened the attribute panel and looked at the experience bar.
The experience from one zombie roughly filled one-fiftieth of the experience bar.
“Fifty? That many?”
Fang Bai was stunned.
“Is the experience required so many times higher just from a one-level difference?
Or is there an experience penalty for killing lower-level monsters after leveling up?”
Fang Bai recalled the zombies on the road outside the residential complex. There was a zombie on the road that had killed and eaten several people. Its shriveled muscles had bulged quite a bit, and its movement speed was very fast. That was definitely a higher-level zombie, but…
“I’d be crazy to challenge higher-level monsters. There are endless low-level monsters to k*ll. So what if the experience they give is less?
At least it’s safe.”
Fang Bai continued to search downwards. Compared to the zombies on the flat ground outside, the zombies in the stairwells were practically harmless.
They hadn’t eaten or killed many people, and they were scattered on different floors. Fang Bai could clear them out from top to bottom, bit by bit. It was too comfortable.
Although there weren’t many in each building unit, there were eight buildings in the entire complex, with five units per building. For now, no one was competing with Fang Bai for monsters. He could completely clear them out building by building.
These were all experience points!
Moreover, in addition to experience points, Fang Bai could also find quite a few house keys. These keys corresponded to rooms that more or less contained some supplies. As long as he got the keys, these houses would become Fang Bai’s reserve supply depots and safe houses.
Fang Bai’s home was located in Building 9, Unit 3, right next to the main gate of the complex, with the residential area wall beside it.
Fang Bai planned to clear the buildings one by one in a way that encircled the complex. After clearing all the zombies inside the buildings, he would consider going outside.
Compared to challenging high-level monsters, Fang Bai preferred to crush them with his level.
Fang Bai hoped that his life would always be a crushing victory.
Not long after, Fang Bai had cleared out all of Unit 1 where he was currently located, but he still hadn’t seen a single piece of equipment.
“Is the equipment drop rate really this low?”
Fang Bai frowned. Leveling up only gave him one more free attribute point, and a piece of equipment could also add one attribute point, which was equivalent to one level.
If he could wear a full set of equipment, his strength would definitely be greatly enhanced.
Especially with Fang Bai focusing all his points on Mental Power, equipment could provide a powerful supplement to his Strength, Constitution, and Agility attributes.
But with such a low equipment drop rate, it was simply unrealistic to want to gather a full set of equipment in a short period of time.
“Is the equipment drop rate so low because I have bad luck, or is the equipment drop rate itself low?”
This thought involuntarily surfaced in Fang Bai’s mind, but he immediately shook his head.
“No, impossible, absolutely impossible. I’m someone who has already obtained a piece of equipment. It can’t be that I have bad luck.”
Fang Bai looked down at the old cloth shoes on his feet. These well-fitting shoes brought him a sliver of comfort.
Crossing from Unit 1 through Unit 2 and Unit 3 to Unit 4, Fang Bai went to the top floor as usual to start clearing the building. However, something happened as soon as he exited the elevator.
A shrill scream broke the silence of the residential complex.
“Ah, I’ll fight you to the death!”
“Roar!”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
“Did something happen to someone?”
Fang Bai’s eyes twitched. He glanced left and right, confirming that there were no zombies on the top floor before quickly going downstairs.
Judging by the sound, the person should be somewhere around the sixth or seventh floor.
He didn’t encounter any zombies on the eighth, seventh, or sixth floors. It wasn’t until the fifth floor that Fang Bai saw the person in the stairwell.
On the fifth floor, a young man was grappling with a zombie. The young man was holding the zombie’s head, and the zombie’s spine seemed to be broken. Only its mouth was constantly opening and closing, and there seemed to be scarlet, gruesome bloodstains on its teeth.
On the ground was a pool of black and red blood. The black blood came from the zombie, while the red blood… The young man had a bite wound on his face.
The young man was clutching the zombie’s head, his whole body trembling. His blood and muscles seemed to be convulsing and boiling. His face began to shrivel and become狰狞. He was transforming into a zombie at an extremely fast pace, and the burning pain all over his body caused him to let out a shrill scream.
He seemed to have noticed Fang Bai and turned his head to look over, extending a hand…
“Save… Roar!”
He—no, it—threw the zombie head in its hand aside and got up to pounce on Fang Bai.
At this moment, Fang Bai instinctively used his shield bash, twisted his body, and swung the hammer.
Bang!
The zombie’s temple shattered as it crashed to the ground. This time, Fang Bai didn’t feel the slightest bit of joy.
